Lol that was proberly a change I did :)
They're always been unavailable, before they were just greyed out I think,
now the new design asked for the not available text to beside them as well
On 13/09/2010 19:01, Jonathan Chetwynd j.chetw...@btinternet.com wrote:
iPlayer: (Not Available)
can
iPlayer: (Not Available)
can anyone (from the BBC?) explain why** the all new beta
iPlayer TV
channels are stuffed with programs that are (Not Available)?
I don't work on web iPlayer but non-available programmes have been
included for ages in the channel view, and when we did the
From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
To be honest, I'm unconvinced by Project Canvas. It's
difficult to see how a UK only system is going to compete in
this day and age. What does it do that a Google TV box can't
do? Why would a manufacturer make a Canvas box instead of
something that
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:22, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
The systems in a UK TV reciever are different to those of a French one,
of a German one, of a USA one
Are you honestly saying that a DVB-T receiver bought today in Germany
won't work in France or the UK? Yes, the US
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:35, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
Are you honestly saying that a DVB-T receiver bought today in Germany
won't work in France or the UK? Yes, the US won't use DVB because it
wasn't invented there and there are some slight
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:41, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
It should work. But not everything will work. The EPG probably won't,
nor the Now and Next. You're unlikely to get traditional teletext.
And if you're German, you won't get the menus in German.
As a German would
From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:41, Andrew Bowden
andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
It should work. But not everything will work. The EPG probably
won't, nor the Now and Next. You're unlikely to get
traditional teletext.
And if you're German, you
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:43, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
As I said, it'll work in a basic generic fashion, but there are many
many aspects which vary between countries, including the EPG and Red
Button.
Which doesn't help the consumer at all. If I buy an ATSC TV in the New
York and
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:41, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:22, Andrew Bowden
andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
The systems in a UK TV reciever are different to those of a French
one, of a German one, of a USA one
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Andrew Bowden wrote:
It should work. But not everything will work. The EPG probably won't,
nor the Now and Next. You're unlikely to get traditional teletext.
And if you're German, you won't get the menus in German.
As a German would you buy a UK set top box?
As a Brit
From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Bowden
Sent: 14 September 2010 09:42
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] Canvas - Open Source Consortium
It should work. But not everything will work. The EPG
probably
On 13/09/2010 23:11, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 21:22, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
The Google TV box (Logitech Revue) is an addition to your set top box, so it
does not integrate with Free To Air TV and may be unable to access UK
catch-up
I think you might be surprised Andrew how well DVB kit works
across Europe from the larger manufacturers. The LCD screens
we have in the office are an EU wide model that asks you for
the country and language first time you switch them on, and
because they are an EU wide design give us
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:21, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
On 13/09/2010 23:11, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
The distributors already use GeoIP or billing addresses to attempt to
restrict access on the internet to services (including the BBC), and while
iplayer, ITV
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:34, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
I think that until we start seeing manufacturers piping up saying that
they're going to start supporting Canvas in devices I can pop down to
Tesco and buy it's too early to say that Canvas will
I agree with you entirely, Paul.
Btw, did folks here see my recent posts to the gets even better and scaling
blogs?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/09/bbc_iplayer_gets_even_better.html
- mine are near the bottom.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:08, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
Given the specs haven't been finished yet, it's the preserve of
precisely nobody _right now_.
True, but I still would have expected at least one of the big
manufacturers to be on board by now. Failing that, even someone like
On 13 Sep 2010, at 19:38, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
Why would a manufacturer
make a Canvas box instead of something that they can sell in most of
the world (or even all of the world with the right components)?
Why would a manufacturer make a Freesat box instead of something that they can
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:42, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:08, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
Given the specs haven't been finished yet, it's the preserve of
precisely nobody _right now_.
True, but I still would have
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:50, Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote:
On 13 Sep 2010, at 19:38, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
Why would a manufacturer
make a Canvas box instead of something that they can sell in most of
the world (or even all of the world with the right components)?
Why
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:51, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:42, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:08, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
Well, widespread support from the industry:
Seems like that very silly almost-content-protection system HDCP is no
more...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/14/hdcp-master-key-supposedly-released-unlocks-hdtv-copy-protect/
Brian Butterworth
follow me on twitter: @briantist http://twitter.com/briantist
web: ukfree.tv http://www.ukfree.tv -
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 15:31, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Seems like that very silly almost-content-protection system HDCP is no
more...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/14/hdcp-master-key-supposedly-released-unlocks-hdtv-copy-protect/
Fear not! I'm sure HDCP+ will be along
Hi.
The Archives Research section in BBC RD is currently recruiting a new
technologist specialising in Machine Inference Techniques, which may be of
interest to some people here. The role is part of our Multimedia
Classification project which looks to extract semantic information from AV
Yeah, but in the meantime
HWAAAH HWAAH HWAAH!!! *HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER*
Alex
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 15:31, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv
wrote:
Seems like that very silly almost-content-protection system HDCP is no
more...
For all it's flaws I think there was a decent model at the heart of it. It
did describe a model of media use that made sense, that described the
reasonable expectations of use of the ordinary user, and the ... oh, no
wait, I'm thinking of something else.
Don't mind me.
a
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010
On 14 September 2010 17:12, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
For all it's flaws I think there was a decent model at the heart of it. It
did describe a model of media use that made sense, that described the
reasonable expectations of use of the ordinary user, and the ... oh, no
wait,
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